Macbeth Lines Pronounced Corrupt Restored, and Mutilations Before Unsuspected Amended, Also Some New Renderings, With Preface and Notes, Also Papers on Shakespeare's Supposed Negations, the Apparitions, and the Temptation of Macbeth (Classic Reprint)

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Mr. Collier and Mr. Knight are partisans of different editions; and whereas Mr. Knight is resolved, if possible, to torture into sense the merest nonsense of the foliof[1623] rather than adopt a reading from a quarto, Mr. Collier, whenever he can venture, puts up with a doubtful, or worse than doubtful, reading from a quarto rather than admit the version of the folio. In one point they are agreed they often prefer an obvious misprint to the substitution of a conjecture which is too certain to deserve the name.' - Id., p. 313, 314.

The punctuation of the old editions is beyond the defence of antiquarian idolatry.' - Id., p. 314.

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